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WWL Program Recipe Submission!

Do you have an AMAZING meal prep-friendly recipe you’d love to see featured in the WWL Program? We’d love to see it! And if it makes the cut, our thousands of members would love to try it.

How it all works:

We’re featuring one Community Recipe per month in the WWL Program. Each month, the author of the chosen recipe will win either a one-year subscription to WWL or an Amazon gift card for $90 (the cost of the one-year subscription).

You can submit as many recipes as you want! This contest is open on a rolling basis.

The process:

Submissions are rolling, so you can submit recipes to us any time! If we think your recipe is a winner, we’ll reach out and discuss the recipe with you.

Then our team will test, re-write and photograph your recipe to get it ready for our members to use.

Here are some guidelines to consider (these will increase your chances of winning!)

  1. We’re looking for diversity! Diversity on the plate is HUGE for us and our members love being able to try cuisines from different countries and cultures right at home. It’s a chance for us to broaden our culinary horizons and get better in the kitchen.
  2. Recipes have to be meal prep-friendly breakfasts or complete main meals (lunches/dinners). We’re not accepting snacks, desserts, cocktails, sides, one-off sauces/dressings or appetizers. A complete meal means something you’d eat in one sitting as a meal prep. So that means the recipe has to include something like chicken + broccoli +rice, not JUST chicken or JUST broccoli.
  3. Consider that our members are from all over the country (and some are international). We try to keep recipes flexible so members can easily make ingredient swaps based on what they have available. My general guideline is that members should be able to buy everything they need for a recipe at a store like Walmart or Target. But we’re not afraid of going outside the big box stores either!
  4. The more leftover-friendly your meal is, the better. Every meal on our site is meal prep-friendly.
  5. Bonus points if your recipe is easily made vegan if it has meat in it, or omnivore if it’s vegan. Every recipe in the WWL Program can be made vegan, vegetarian, omnivore and gluten-free.

Some recipe writing tips

We will re-write the winning recipes to fit our format, but here are some general tips that will help make it easier for us to review and test out!

  • Ingredients should be written like this: 1 TBSP olive oil or 1 head of broccoli, chopped. Every ingredient should have an amount with the exception of “salt and pepper to taste.”
  • Avoid writing ingredients like this: 1 cup of chopped broccoli (it’s hard to know how much to buy at the store when it’s written that way) and instead write it like this: 1 head of broccoli, chopped.
  • We are accepting recipes in both metric and imperial measurements!
  • Include all ingredients in the list, including water, aluminum foil or parchment paper
  • Do your best to write steps clearly – as if you were standing over someone’s shoulder in the kitchen, telling them what to do.
  • The last step should describe how to portion the meal out into containers – NOT serving instructions. Remember – these are meal prep recipes!
  • Please include instructions on how to reheat the recipe in the last step.

We’d love an image of the recipe as well. It doesn’t have to be professional-looking, but it helps to have a point of reference. If you don’t have an image, please include one from another source. If you’re using an image from another source, we won’t use it in our final version.

Can’t wait to see your recipes. We’ll get back to you within 5 business days after submitting! Good luck!

 

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Have you ever tried a produce box subscription? Sh Have you ever tried a produce box subscription? Share your experience with us in the comments! Here’s mine 👇🏼
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I started using @pacificcoastharvest a month ago after randomly seeing the boxes sitting in a local coffee shop!
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The cost is $30 per box (I know it doesn’t look like a lot) BUT you can control what’s in your box and how much you want to spend. That’s one thing I really like about this box. I can choose the produce I want every week and I’ve been using this to supplement weekend cooking and some meal prep. I’m able to stretch some of the ingredients for weeks (root veggies, apples).
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If I couldn’t choose what’s in the box, it would be pretty tough for me. But so far I’ve used and loved all the produce (and some other items like coffee, hot sauce and cheese) and am excited to keep branching out!
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Since using this box I’ve had purple Brussels, watermelon radish, gold beets, local apples, satsumas, purple yams, turnips and more. I can’t wait to try lemongrass from this week’s box. For me, someone who cooks a lot and can spend a little extra on this stuff, it’s worth it. With this weekly box, our regular grocery costs have decreased too. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts below!
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This isn’t an ad btw! Just really enjoying Pacific Coast Harvest and happy I stumbled upon their boxes recently.
Pancake pros! What are your BEST tips for making p Pancake pros! What are your BEST tips for making perfect pancakes? Share below! 🥞
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❓And if you absolutely wouldn’t describe yourself as a pancake pro, what are your pancake struggles?
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🤔I’ve been getting a lot of pancake questions lately in DMs and in our private WWL Program Facebook group (the most incredible food community on FB!) and I want to make a video with the best tried and true tips for expert level pancakes.
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🥞Pancakes are one of our favorite breakfasts for meal prep! They reheat great in the microwave, toaster or on the stove and there are SO MANY flavor combinations to try.
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🙌🏼We have several pancake recipes in the WWL Program - matcha, lemon blueberry, chocolate chip cherry and pumpkin to name a few. In this photo we have our favorite banana pancake recipe. Sign up for the WWL Program in my bio link to get access to all our breakfast meal prep recipes and more!
You’re not a doughnut or a piece of zucchini bre You’re not a doughnut or a piece of zucchini bread. You’re a human who needs food and nourishment to show up at their best in this world. 💕
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MEALS:
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Zucchini carrot “confetti” bread - coming to WWL soon
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Chickpea Greek salad wraps - dropped in the WWL Program yesterday
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Mongolian-inspired beef - coming to WWL soon
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Sprinkled doughnut from @mightyodonuts 🍩
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Grab our recipes, non-diet meal plans and grocery lists  when you sign up for the WWL Program in my bio link!
QUICK MEAL PREP TIPS . 👉🏼Choose meals you ca QUICK MEAL PREP TIPS
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👉🏼Choose meals you can easily multitask - like cooking one meal on the stove while you cook something else in the oven or another appliance (slow cooker, Instant Pot)
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👉🏼Opt for rotisserie chicken or low maintenance proteins like hard boiled eggs to cut down time in the kitchen
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👉🏼Pre-cut veggies can also save you tons of time, but they’re more expensive! If that’s out of your budget, consider doing all your chopping 1 day before you prep and assemble meals
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👉🏼Never meal plan, shop and cook on the same day. I like to meal plan on Friday, shop on Saturday and cook on Sunday.
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👉🏼Meals like overnight oats, smoothies, skillets, one-pot pastas and salad wraps are reliably fast!
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🙌🏼All the meals pictured (except the parfaits) are featured in this week’s new WWL meal plan for members of the WWL Program! Grab this plan + all our recipes and custom meal planning tools when you sign up in my bio link! We offer a 7-day free trial, then it’s just $9.99/mo (or less when you sign up for 6-12 months) to keep meal prepping with our plans, recipes and community.
I like to say all good things start with a spreads I like to say all good things start with a spreadsheet 🤓including affordable, delicious meal preps!
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Save this post for next time you need a quick reminder of how to make simple meal plans you’ll actually stick to!
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👩🏻‍🍳There’s no way I could pull off these meal preps week after week (for years and years) without solid planning. It’s something I do every Friday, the day before I shop and 2 days before I prep.
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😅Do you have to make your meal plan on a spreadsheet? No! You can do it in your notes app, on paper, on a white board, with apps or services like WWL Program - however works for you. I use excel because everything I plan isn’t in the WWL Program yet 😜
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👈🏼Swipe to the last slide for my simple 3 steps to making a meal plan.
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💕Of course there’s an intuitive eating approach to this: I don’t follow the plan exactly during the week. Meaning I might it eat my chickpea wraps for dinner instead of lunch one day. The point of filling in the grid is to make sure I have the meals I want to plan for covered. When life gets randomly crazy, it’s ok if the plan goes out the window.  Of course these days, it’s pretty slow and steady 😂
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If you need help@with meal planning or just hate sitting down to do it, we can help. The WWL Program has some awesome planning tools that help you feel organized AND it automatically makes a grocery list for you based on the meals you choose for the week.  Sign up for a free trial in my bio link! After your free week, it’s $9.99/mo.
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👇🏼What’s your meal planning medium these days? Excel? Pen and paper? Our Program? Share in the comments!!
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RECIPES: “confetti” bread, chickpea Greek salad wraps and Mongolian-inspired ground beef and broccoli are all coming to the WWL Program for members soon!
Chopped Greek salad, a love story💕 . 🥬I used Chopped Greek salad, a love story💕
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🥬I used to buy a big chopped Greek salad at a takeout place called Così a few times per week. I’ll be honest, it’s mostly because the bread they served with the salad was amazing and it was a $7.50 lunch for me. When I started meal prepping, OBVIOUSLY Greek salad was something I tried to make often, but always failed. It was just soooo soggy and sad.
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🍅Eventually, with practice, I figured it out. The key is using fresh herbs, a good dressing and ditching lettuce altogether or keeping it on the side to add before eating. And bundling the salad up in a wrap makes it easier to eat and take on the go.
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🌯This salad (with a chicken version) and wrap is dropping on Wednesday in the WWL Program in our brand new MINIMAL COOKING meal plan! That’s right. The veg version of this requires no heat/appliances. And the omnivore version only has you quickly cooking chicken!
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👉🏼To get this recipe and plan when it drops, head over to my bio link to sign up for the WWL Program! We share a new plan and recipes every week so you never get bored.
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Chicken wrap photo credit: @pinkleme and credit to my partner for holding the spoon in the action shots 😂
Since I have a bunch of new folks here - welcome! Since I have a bunch of new folks here - welcome! I’m Talia and here’s what you need to know about Workweek Lunch👇🏼
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👉🏼WWL is a meal plan subscription with thousands of members all over the world and resource for all things meal prep, meal planning and practical cooking *without* a side of diet culture. We don’t share calorie/nutrition info, we don’t talk about weight loss tips or restriction of any kind (see my intuitive eating story highlight for more info). I’m not here to tell you what to eat, how much or how often. 🤗 I’m here to help make it *easier* for you to eat however makes you feel your best.
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👩🏻‍🍳I don’t have a formal background in cooking or dietetics. I’m just really organized and have a lot of cooking experience! Meal planning and prepping has always come easily to me and I love helping others.
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💸I started meal prepping right after graduating college to save money living in NYC! And because I wanted to restrict food to be the smallest version of myself. 😣 My first kitchen was tiny, had no working oven and had a bug issue (that’s NYC for you) but I still got meal prep done and managed to save enough for an emergency fund and some snowboarding trips!
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🤘🏼Now I meal prep because it’s the only way for me to work as much as I want to during the week and helps me have more mental energy for important decisions. Can’t say we are saving money at this point because our cost of living has been pretty low for years thanks to our meal prep routine. And I no longer use meal prep as a tool to force my body to be a size it wasn’t meant to be.
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👩🏻‍💻Workweek Lunch is my full time job. We have an amazing team of 5 (3 of us are full time) and I LOVE what I do.
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🏔Other basics: I’m 28, I live with my partner in Seattle and I love hiking, snowboarding, camping and solo travel.
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❓how can I help? Tell me what you’re looking forward to seeing here on my feed! And stay tuned in stories for today’s #mealprepsunday sesh.
I used to have so many food rules that made me fee I used to have so many food rules that made me feel tired, irritable and constantly guilty for breaking them. 😪
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🤦🏻‍♀️One of them involved not eating after a certain time (and ignoring hunger). Another involved avoiding anything made with flour, sugar, butter etc. I had so many of them... and for what?
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🤷🏻‍♀️They didn’t make me “healthier” (read: thinner) they just made me stressed out and distracted from what’s REALLY important.
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👀Some people will look at this photo and only see the foods they don’t allow themselves to eat, or foods they deem “unhealthy” and that’s ok.
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👁And some people will see what I see - variety. And that’s what makes me feel my best!
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😍This is pretty much what I eat as an intuitive eater although it changes every day. I always have the option to eat snacks. I almost always eat food after dinner (when I’m hungry!). And every day I eat something home cooked because that’s just my lifestyle (and that’s where meal prep fits in). I eat packaged foods every day too... and feel physically way better than when I tried to avoid them.
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🤘🏼If you’re new to intuitive eating and want to learn more, check out my story highlights! I have a whole highlight about it. 
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👩🏻‍🍳RECIPES for the blender muffins, sheet pan salmon meal and green rice burrito bowl are in the WWL Program! Learn more and hop on a free trial in my bio link!
Its free recipe Friday! Today we’re sharing our Its free recipe Friday! Today we’re sharing our mini chicken pot pies on workweeklunch.com. Head over to stories/story highlights under “free recipes” to grab the link!
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This hack (only to be done with oven safe containers!) Helps cut down on dishes and bake time in the oven. You can do this with any casserole dish/bake! You can also freeze before baking and bake when ready to eat.
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Let me know in the comments if you think you’ll try it!
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